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React Rich Text Editor - Paste Cleanup

Paste as Plain Text, Keep Format, or Clean Format in Rich Text Editor

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Paste cleanup and formatting control in Rich Text Editor

Manage pasted content in the React Rich Text Editor with flexible paste cleanup options that preserve formatting, keep plain text, or remove unwanted styles to maintain clean and consistent content.

React Rich Text Editor keep format paste mode

Keep original formatting on paste

Keep original formatting when pasting content, preserving text styles, tables, lists, and layouts from external sources. Use it to retain document appearance, reduce manual reformatting, and simplify content migration from Word, websites, and other editors.

React Rich Text Editor clean format paste

Clean formatting on paste

Clean format mode removes unwanted inline styles and non-structural HTML attributes while preserving headings, paragraphs, and lists. Use it when pasting content from external sources like web pages and emails to maintain consistent formatting, reduce cleanup efforts, and improve content quality.

React Rich Text Editor plain text paste

Plain text on paste

Plain text mode removes all HTML, formatting, and metadata from pasted content while applying the editor’s default styles. Use it when pasting content from external sources to create a clean starting point, maintain consistent formatting, and simplify content editing workflows.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The React Rich Text Editor offers a Keep Format mode that retains the original styles, structure, tables, lists, and images from the source document. This is the recommended paste mode when users need to maintain branded layouts or visual fidelity from external content.

Yes. The React Rich Text Editor can display a paste prompt dialog on every paste action, letting users choose between Keep Format, Clean Format, and Plain Text modes interactively. Developers can also configure the default paste behavior programmatically without requiring user input.

Yes. The React Rich Text Editor lets developers automatically remove specific HTML tags and attributes from pasted content. This provides precise control over the paste cleanup process and helps maintain clean, secure, and consistent document formatting without custom post processing code.

Yes. The React Rich Text Editor provides Clean Format and Plain Text paste modes that remove unwanted styles, attributes, and HTML tags from pasted content. Clean Format preserves the content hierarchy while Plain Text strips all markup and applies the editor’s default styles.

The React Rich Text Editor accepts pasted content from Word, Excel, Outlook, Google Docs, and third party HTML sources. Paste Cleanup automatically sanitizes and normalizes content while preserving the selected paste mode, eliminating the need for manual reformatting after pasting.

Yes. The React Rich Text Editor Clean Format mode removes unwanted styles and attributes while preserving document structure, including headings, paragraphs, and lists. This helps maintain readability and consistent formatting without manual cleanup.

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